News and Announcements

For those wanting the latest crack-of-the-week, packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5 RC 1 are available.
This is release candidate software so expect bugs. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE.
Users of 10.04 LTS can install it from the Kubuntu Beta PPA.

Canonical is very pround to announce it is sponsoring Akademy again. Canonical is the founder and principle commercial supporter of the Ubuntu project, including Kubuntu. Akademy is the annual conference of KDE's developers and contributors. By supporting Akademy we are allowing KDE to meet up, give talks, hack on code and discuss their plans for another year.
See you in Tampere!

Amarok 2.3.1 has been released. Users of the upcoming Kubuntu Maverick release can install it from the official Kubuntu repositories.

Users of recent releases can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA by reading the Software Repository Guide and adding the following repository to your software sources list: ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

If you want to try out Qt 4.7 and the interesting new world of Qt Quick ("from now on the way to make GUIs"), Kubuntu 10.04 users can try it from the experimental PPA. The Qt Creator packages there have Qt Quick designer integration.